A Little Bit of Haiti Can Touch Your Heart

I find that God keeps showing me the negativity towards this trip are SMALL in comparison to the adventure I'm about to head on. I was checking out the For His Glory Adoption Outreach site (the place we will be working very closely with in Haiti) and i found this blog. This entry definately touched my heart!

"Last week Pierre, our Pastor/Manager fell and broke his ankle. The first reports we had were that he fell off the roof and broke his leg. We learned on Monday that he had broken his foot in three places. Pierre had surgery yesterday evening and has a cast up to his knee. He has been in a lot of pain as the first round of doctors tried to reset his ankle without any anesthesia. He is resting now and is much more comfortable.
Pierre had been helping the orphanage mechanic with guiding the water truck in when there was a commotion on the street outside the orphanage. It seems a woman with a small baby had asked a stranger to hold the baby while she went to the restroom. She disappeared and never returned. The woman that was left holding the baby said she had no way to care for the child and left her on a garbage ravine.
There were people on the street yelling for Pierre that he needed to come get the baby or she would not survive. Pierre was rushing while he was on the ladder and lost his footing and fell. Another staff person went and got the baby.
The baby is a little girl and appears to be about 4 months old. The first photos of her show how malnourished she is. She is skin and bone, with every rib from the front and back showing. Her eyes are vacant and she doesn’t cry. She has a face like a doll with eyes that appear as empty.
.......We have named the little baby girl, Hope. She is currently in the hospital awaiting a blood transfusion and is on oxygen. We don’t have a diagnosis, but know she is stabilizing.
When we were able to reach Haiti for the three minutes we were granted today to see how the baby was doing, we told the staff that in the US, we have named the baby Hope. There was a collective “ahhhh”, followed by a knowing, somber, “Ahh, that is a good name for her.”
Hope needs just that: a future and a hope. She needs prayer. She needs a fighting chance. We are trying to set up a fund for her to cover her medical costs while the orphanage awaits lab tests and a diagnosis. The birth father was found through the General Hospital records and it appears, at this time, that the mother has been reported as deceased.
Hope’s fighting chance is in Christ. The orphanage, should she survive the illness she is fighting, is a refuge for her where she will be loved, fed and given clean water that escapes so many of the people in Haiti."